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astronomy and astrophysics

14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun. G. van Belle, ed. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 384. Proc. wksp., Pasadena, CA, Nov. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-331-7, CD-ROM

Classical Novae. 2nd ed. M. F. Bode, A. Evans, eds. Cambridge Astrophysics Series 43. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [1989]. $145.00 (375 pp.).   Buy at Amazon

Clusters of Galaxies: Beyond the Thermal View. J. Kaastra, ed. Springer, New York, 2008. $179.00 (418 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-78874-6  Buy at Amazon

First Stars III. B. W. O’Shea, A. Heger, T. Abel, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 990. Proc. conf., Santa Fe, NM, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $270.00 (516 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0509-7  Buy at Amazon

Frontiers in Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics, and Reactions: FINUSTAR 2. P. Demetriou, R. Julin, S. V. Harissopulos, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1012. Proc. conf., Aghios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $199.00 (453 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0532-5  Buy at Amazon

Gamma-Ray Bursts 2007. M. Galassi, D. Palmer, E. Fenimore, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1000. Proc. conf., Santa Fe, NM, Nov. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $237.00 (657 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0533-2  Buy at Amazon

The Ninth Torino Workshop on Evolution and Nucleoesynthesis in AGB Stars and the Second Perugia Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics. R. Guandalini, S. Palmerini, M. Busso, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1001. Proc. wksp., Perugia, Italy, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $203.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0520-2  Buy at Amazon

A Population Explosion. R. M. Bandyopadhyay, S. Wachter, D. Gelino, C. R. Gelino, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1010. Proc. conf., St. Pete Beach, FL, Oct.–Nov. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $221.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0530-1, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array: A New Era for Astrophysics. R. Bachiller, J. Cernicharo, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $179.00 (335 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6934-5, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

The Second Annual Spitzer Science Center Conference: Infrared Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution. R.-R. Chary, H. I. Teplitz, K. Sheth, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 381. Proc. mtg., Pasadena, CA, Nov. 2005. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (525 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-325-6  Buy at Amazon

Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV. G. J. Babu, E. D. Feigelson, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 371. Proc. conf., University Park, PA, June 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $65.00 (448 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-240-2  Buy at Amazon

Status and Prospects of Astronomy in Germany 2003–2016: Memorandum. A. Burkert et al., eds. (translated from German). Wiley, Weinheim, Germany, 2008 [2003]. $75.00 paper (223 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-31910-7  Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Quantum Gases in Quasi-One-Dimensional Arrays. M. R. Bakhtiari. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore Theses 5. Edizioni della Normale/ Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $29.95 paper (168 pp.). ISBN 978-88-7642-319-2  Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Interval/Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-classical Logics. V.-N. Huynh et al., eds. Advances in Soft Computing 46. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 paper (375 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77663-5  Buy at Amazon

Numerical Methods for Evolutionary Differential Equations. U. M. Ascher. Computational Science and Engineering 5. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008. $79.00 paper (395 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-52-8  Buy at Amazon

Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing. Vol. 1. G. Dahlquist, Å. Björck. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008. $109.00 (717 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-44-3  Buy at Amazon

Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. 3rd ed. W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, B. P. Flannery. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [1992]. $80.00 (1235 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88068-8  Buy at Amazon

Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing (CD-ROM). 3rd ed. W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, B. P. Flannery. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [2002]. $80.00 ISBN 978-0-521-70685-8  Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Advances in Solid State Physics 47. R. Haug, ed. Advances in Solid State Physics. Springer, New York, 2008. $199.00 (347 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74324-8  Buy at Amazon

Narrow Gap Semiconductors 2007. B. N. Murdin, S. K. Clowes, eds. Springer Proceedings in Physics 119. Proc. conf., Guildford, UK, July 2007. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $249.00 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8424-9  Buy at Amazon

Symmetry and Condensed Matter Physics: A Computational Approach. M. El-Batanouny, F. Wooten. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $110.00 (922 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-82845-1  Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Cosmology. S. Weinberg. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $90.00 (593 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-852682-7  Buy at Amazon

Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities. P. S. Joshi. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $130.00 (273 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87104-4  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity. M. Alcubierre. International Series of Monographs on Physics 140. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $110.00 (444 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-920567-7  Buy at Amazon

Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity. T. Thiemann. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $140.00 (819 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84263-1  Buy at Amazon

device physics

Beamed Energy Propulsion. A. V. Pakhomov, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 997. Proc. symp., Kailua-Kona, HI, Nov. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $235.00 (616 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0516-5  Buy at Amazon

Detection of Liquid Explosives and Flammable Agents in Connection with Terrorism. H. Schubert, A. Kuznetsov, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Proc. wksp., St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct. 2007. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $199.00, $89.95 paper (233 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8464-5, ISBN 978-1-4020-8465-2 paper  Buy at Amazon

The Essence of Dielectric Waveguides. C. Yeh, F. I. Shimabukuro. Springer, New York, 2008. $129.00 (522 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-30929-3  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices. S.-S. Sun, L. R. Dalton, eds. Optical Science and Engineering 133. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $119.95 (910 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-9284-9  Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development. V. F. Krapivin, C. A. Varotsos. Springer-Praxis Books in Environmental Sciences. Praxis/ Springer, New York, 2008. $269.00 (562 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75439-8  Buy at Amazon

Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next 50 Years. V. Smil. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $29.95 (307 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-19586-7  Buy at Amazon

fluids

Hemodynamical Flows: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation. G. P. Galdi, R. Rannacher, A. M. Robertson, S. Turek. Oberwolfach Seminars 37. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $49.95 paper (501 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-7805-9  Buy at Amazon

Microdrops and Digital Microfluidics. J. Berthier. Micro and Nano Technologies. William Andrew, Norwich, NY, 2008. $160.00 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8155-1544-9  Buy at Amazon

Rheology for Chemists: An Introduction. 2nd ed. J. W. Goodwin, R. W. Hughes. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2008 [2000]. $89.95 (264 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-839-7  Buy at Amazon

Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Liquids. 2nd ed. D. J. Evans, G. Morriss. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [1990]. $140.00 (314 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85791-8  Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Earthquake Monitoring and Seismic Hazard Mitigation in Balkan Countries. E. S. Husebye, ed. NATO Sciences Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences 81. Proc. wksp., Borovetz, Bulgaria, Sept. 2005. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $179.95, $89.95 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6813-3, ISBN 978-1-4020-6814-0 paper  Buy at Amazon

Microearthquake Seismology and Seismotectonics of South Asia. J. R. Kayal. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $249.00 (503 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8179-8  Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

Analogies in Physics and Life: A Scientific Autobiography. R. W. Weiner. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $88.00, $58.00 paper (418 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-470-2, ISBN 978-981-270-471-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam—The First Muslim Nobel Scientist. G. Fraser. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $49.95 (305 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-920846-3  Buy at Amazon

The Discovery of Evolution. 2nd ed. D. Young. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [1992]. $120.00, $32.99 paper (281 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86803-7, ISBN 978-0-521-68746-1 paper  Buy at Amazon

Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius. S. S. Schweber. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $29.95 (412 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-02828-9  Buy at Amazon

Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius. H. C. Ohanian. W. W. Norton, New York, 2008. $24.95 (394 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06293-9  Buy at Amazon

A History of Abstract Algebra. I. Kleiner. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $49.95 paper (168 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4684-4  Buy at Amazon

I Am a Strange Loop. D. Hofstadter. Basic Books, New York, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $16.95 paper (412 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-03079-8  Buy at Amazon

On the Beauty of Science: A Nobel Laureate Reflects on the Universe, God, and the Nature of Discovery. H. A. Hauptman; D. J. Grothe, ed. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2008. $26.00 (87 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59102-460-6  Buy at Amazon

Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time—the Building of the Panama Canal. M. Parker. Doubleday, New York, 2007. $29.95 (530 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-51534-4  Buy at Amazon

The Physics of Christianity. F. J. Tipler. Doubleday, New York, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $15.95 paper (319 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-51425-5  Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop. A. Kaufer, F. Kerber, eds. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Proc. wksp., Garching, Germany, Jan. 2007. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $149.00 (614 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-76962-0  Buy at Amazon

Advances in Cryogenic Engineering Materials. Vol. 54. U. Balachandran, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 986. Proc. conf., Chattanooga, TN, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 (566 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0505-9, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

The Art and Science of Lightning Protection. M. A. Uman. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $110.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87811-1  Buy at Amazon

Micromixers: Fundamentals, Design and Fabrication. N.-T. Nguyen. Micro and Nano Technologies. William Andrew, Norwich, NY, 2008. $140.00 (311 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8155-1543-2  Buy at Amazon

Noise Temperature Theory and Applications for Deep Space Communications Antenna Systems. T. Y. Otoshi. Artech House Antennas and Propagation Series. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2008. $125.00 (292 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-377-4  Buy at Amazon

Plasma Assisted Decontamination of Biological and Chemical Agents. S. Güçeri, A. Fridman, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology. Proc. inst., Cesme-Izmir, Turkey, Sept. 2007. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $199.00, $89.95 paper (311 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8438-6, ISBN 978-1-4020-8440-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

Powder Diffraction: Theory and Practice. R. E. Dinnebier, S. J. L. Billinge, eds. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2008. $129.00 (582 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-231-9  Buy at Amazon

PSTP 2007. A. Kponou, Y. Makdisi, A. Zelenski, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 980. Proc. wksp., Upton, NY, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $165.00 (428 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0499-1  Buy at Amazon

materials science

Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering. J. Banhart, ed. Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $150.00 (462 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-921324-5, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Materials. A. Ghoshray, B. Bandyopadhyay, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1003. Proc. conf., Kolkata, India, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 paper (331 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0522-6  Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flyers. W. Shyy et al. Cambridge Aerospace Series 22. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (177 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88278-1  Buy at Amazon

Latin-American School of Physics XXXVIII ELAF. R. Jáuregui-Renaud, J. Récamier-Angelini, O. Rosas-Ortiz, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 994. Proc. conf., Mexico City, Aug.–Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $85.00 (139 pp.). ISBN 978-07354-0513-4

nonlinear science and chaos

Differential Equations, Chaos and Variational Problems. V. Staicu, ed. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications 75. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $199.00 (435 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8481-4  Buy at Amazon

Emergent Macroeconomics: An Agent-Based Approach to Business Fluctuations. D. D. Gatti et al. New Economic Windows. Springer, Milan, Italy, 2008. $69.95 (114 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-0724-6  Buy at Amazon

Generalized Collocation Methods: Solutions to Nonlinear Problems. N. Bellomo, B. Lods, R. Revelli, L. Ridolfi. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $69.95 (194 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4525-0  Buy at Amazon

Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IV. A. Minai, Y. Bar-Yam, eds. New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $179.00 paper (390 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73848-0  Buy at Amazon

nuclear physics

Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics. J. Escher, F. S. Dietrich, T. Kawano, I. J. Thompson. AIP Conference Proceedings 1005. Proc. wksp., Yosemite National Park, CA, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $130.00 (247 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0524-0  Buy at Amazon

Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region. G. P. Zeller, J. G. Morfin, F. Cavanna, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 967. Proc. wksp., Batavia, IL, June 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $135.00 (340 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0484-7  Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

Introduction to Nonimaging Optics. J. Chaves. Optical Science and Engineering 134. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $139.95 (531 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-5429-3  Buy at Amazon

Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications. M. Ebrahim-Zadeh, I. T. Sorokina, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Proc. wksp., Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2005. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $229.95, $99.95 paper (625 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6439-5, ISBN 978-1-4020-6462-3 paper  Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Multivalued Fields in Condensed Matter, Electromagnetism, and Gravitation. H. Kleinert. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $68.00, $38.00 paper (497 pp.). ISBN 978-981-279-170-2, ISBN 978-981-279-171-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

Special Functions for Applied Scientists. A. M. Mathai, H. J. Haubold. Springer, New York, 2008. $99.00 (464 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-75893-0  Buy at Amazon

Symmetry Rules: How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry. J. Rosen. Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $59.95 (304 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75972-0  Buy at Amazon